Georgia § 27-4-212 - Powers and duties of commission and state officers.
Full text of Georgia Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 27-4-212 — Powers and duties of commission and state officers., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 27-4-212. Powers and duties of commission and state officers.
There is granted to the commission and the commissioners thereof all the powers provided for in the compact and all the powers necessary or incidental to the carrying out of the compact in every particular. All officers of the State of Georgia are authorized and directed to do all things falling within their respective provinces and jurisdictions necessary or incidental to the carrying out of the compact in every particular, it being declared to be the policy of the State of Georgia to perform and carry out the compact and to accomplish the purposes thereof. All officers, bureaus, departments, and persons of and in the government or the administration of the State of Georgia are authorized and directed at convenient times and upon request of the commission to furnish the commission with information and data possessed by them and to aid the commission by loan of personnel or other means lying within their legal rights. (Ga. L. 1943, p. 117, § 3; Ga. L. 1955, p. 483, § 23; Code 1933, § 45-723, enacted by Ga. L. 1977, p. 396, § 1.)
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